In my latest Aristotle Foundation column, published in the Western Standard, I say the embrace of radical DEI ideology by Canada’s military leaders, including a notorious recent issue of Canadian Military Journal, makes sense if you put aside conspiracy theories and recognize that ideas have consequences and people believe their beliefs, including ones you don’t share.
In my latest National Post column I ask people who hate Donald Trump why they can’t talk sensibly about important issues until he barges into the conversation.
In my latest Mercatornet column I ask how Americans reached this dreadful pass and what any of us can do about it.
In my latest Epoch Times column I say the real scandal in our government falsely claiming to be helping the U.S. and Britain against Iranian-backed Islamist pirates isn’t that they’re lying, it’s that they’re deluded.
“Previous civilizations have degenerated. Previous ages have marched into the dark not knowing that they were marching into the dark. But in any previous time, were artists, scholars, and thinkers so eager to explain that degeneration was really progress?”
J. Budziszewski “The Underground Thomist” April 17, 2023 [https://undergroundthomist.org/antipasto]
“Malign Neglect: Pierre Trudeau and the Politics of Indifference”
The title of Chapter 4, in Jack Granatstein Who Killed the Canadian Military?
“Jean Chretien’s government wants the shade from the tree, but aren’t willing to do anything to keep that tree strong.”
Canadian Alliance MP Monte Solberg quoted in the National Post March 31, 2003 [the specific context was Solberg supporting the second Gulf War but it obviously applies far more broadly as well as chronically to politicians and the Canadian Armed Forces]
In my latest Epoch Times column, I ask for empirical evidence to support Chrystia Freeland’s Davos claim that decarbonization means “more jobs, more growth, more manufacturing” and instead find evidence that she lives in a dream world where wishes are solid and facts are just mist.